Sumitomo Bakelite announced that it is expanding production capacity for encapsulation materials used in advanced chip packaging at its facilities in Singapore and Suzhou, China. This...
PEN SJ Electronics, a subsidiary of China's SJ Electronics, will invest more than US$70 million in an advanced packaging materials and thermal management facility at Batu Kawan Industrial...
The Financial Times recently reported that Nvidia is in early-stage talks to acquire or significantly deepen its investment in the US$25 billion open-weight AI startup Reflection...
Changs Ascending said orders tied to semiconductor customers' new plant construction, equipment arrivals, and project acceptance schedules were gradually fulfilled and recognized as...
South Korea's JNTC plans to invest KRW347 billion (approx. US$259 million) in glass substrate manufacturing as it reports a sharp reduction in copper-filling time for thick glass cores,...
Malaysia is moving from traditional semiconductor back-end manufacturing toward higher value-added work, with advanced packaging set to drive growth over the next two to three years,...
Lam Research is launching its first country-specific semiconductor venture fund in South Korea after shipping its 15,000th locally manufactured processing chamber, deepening its manufacturing...
South Korea's Doosan is directing more than half of its record KRW968.4 billion (approx. US$724 million) copper-clad laminate (CCL) investment to China, positioning itself closer to...
Samsung Electronics is expanding its memory testing footprint beyond South Korea with a US$4.08 billion project in Vietnam, adding another back-end and export base as tight DRAM and...
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has warned that technology giants are borrowing heavily to invest in AI, and that further increases in interest rates could become the trigger...
As generative AI accelerates the volume and sophistication of online scams, fraud syndicates are leveraging AI to mass-produce personalized phishing messages, fake investment...
Tokyo Electron (TEL) could post an operating profit of about JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.32 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 2027, up roughly 60% from JPY624.9 billion a year...
Acer subsidiary Acer Synergy Tech reported consolidated revenue of NT$265 million (approx. US$8.3 million) in September 2026, up 158% year-on-year and a monthly record. Third-quarter...
The global race to build data centers for artificial intelligence is entering a more difficult phase. Demand for computing capacity remains strong, but new projects increasingly face...
Thailand's industrial landscape may shift further toward China as global supply chains continue to move across Southeast Asia. More broadly, the trend highlights how lower costs, trade...
